Jake Chandler

said
over 2 years ago

David,

Did you ever get a response on this?

Jake

David Ponder

said
over 2 years ago

Hi Jake,
Nice to hear from you.
No unfortunately I have not heard anything from Leapfeog.
I will try to request an answer but I am not hopeful since there has been no feedback yet.
In short I developed my own settings to get Nylon to work. Not easy given the temps at the upper limit of printers bed capability. As I've tried to push the bed temp and keep it high for Nylon the printer struggles in aided. By unaided I mean that without a enclosure around the printer to keep the temp in and around the build area up high and stable it takes an extremely long time to reach the higher bed temps. Sometimes as much 20-30 mins.
I am curious what you are going to print in Nylon?
I have not printed in Nylon for about 4-5 months. So I am a bit out of practise.
Look forward to hearing a bit more of your story.
Regards
David

Jake Chandler

said
over 2 years ago

Hi David,

What temp do you use for the bed? I found these settings on another forum:

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Jake

David Ponder

said
over 2 years ago

Hi Jake,

I use sticky labels on my bed and not tape so changes the behaviour depending on how your printer is setup. I typically aimed for 80 deg C though I found to go higher even though it should it struggled to get up above 85 deg as I don't have an enclosed environment / cover though some people just use a square plastic container to keep more heat in. I intend to build a hood to cover the top of the printer and put a sliding panel on the front of the printer to make it fully enclosed, the plus side is it will help with ABS also.

If you like I can also try printing something for you as a comparison though I don't know what your company's policy is for sending things outside without an NDA(Non Disclosure Agreement for company IP) in place.

Hope this has been of some help?

Kind regards,

David.

Jake Chandler

said
over 2 years ago

Hi David,

I have an Xeed so it's somewhat enclosed. I ran a few parts with the bed at 75 deg C, the nozzle at 240, and I used a glue stick instead of the sticky label. It worked really well except that the parts were a little stringy. I'm going to try to run it at 230 instead to see if that helps.

I liked the glue stick more than the labels and it was much easier to clean up. The glue is water soluble so I just used a wet rag to clean it up!